Nory is a Dublin-founded, AI-native restaurant management platform built to replace the patchwork of disconnected tools that hospitality operators typically juggle. Founded in 2021 by Conor Sheridan, who previously co-founded the restaurant group Mad Egg, Nory combines business intelligence, workforce management, inventory control and payroll into a single operating system designed specifically for the economics of running restaurants.
What distinguishes Nory is its use of AI to actively drive operational decisions rather than just report on them. The platform forecasts demand at the site and day-part level, then translates those forecasts into optimized staff schedules and inventory orders, the two largest controllable costs in any restaurant. By aligning labor and stock to predicted demand, Nory helps operators avoid both over-staffing and stockouts, directly protecting margins in a notoriously thin-margin industry battered by rising input and labor costs.
The results Nory reports are substantial for the category: operators using the platform have reduced operating costs by nearly 20%, boosted net profits by up to 50% and saved more than 100 hours of administrative work per month. Its customer base spans the full spectrum of the market, from independent restaurants to internationally recognized groups including Black Sheep Coffee, the Jamie Oliver Group and Dave's Hot Chicken, demonstrating that the system scales from single sites to multi-unit chains.
Nory has raised $62.6 million in total funding. After a $16 million Series A led by Accel in 2024, it closed a $37 million Series B led by Kinnevik in September 2025, with participation from Accel, Base10, Triple Point and Samaipata, to accelerate hiring of data scientists, advance its proprietary AI and roll out autonomous AI assistants while expanding into the United States. The company is a clear leader in the under-covered vertical of AI for restaurant operations.